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  • Textron to Equip Small Aerosonde UAS With Overwatch Imaging's Precision Survey Sensor - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Textron to Equip Small Aerosonde UAS With Overwatch Imaging’s Precision Survey Sensor

    Textron has announced it will offer an Overwatch Imaging-built precision survey sensor technology as part of the Aerosonde small unmanned aircraft system. Overwatch Imaging designed its TK-7 Firewatch multispectrum survey payload with color focal plane array and co-boresighted infrared sensors that Textron will integrate with the UAS’ onboard image processing system to facilitate precision mapping and aerial photography, Textron said Monday. […] More

  • MIT Research VP Maria Zuber Elected to Textron Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MIT Research VP Maria Zuber Elected to Textron Board

    Maria Zuber, vice president of research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and chair of the National Science Board, has joined the board of directors at Textron. She oversees MIT’s Lincoln laboratory and interdisciplinary research facilities as well as the university’s research partnerships with the federal government, Textron said Thursday. Zuber is also the E. A. Griswold professor of geophysics at MIT […] More

  • Textron Subsidiary Conducts Weapons Exercise on Scorpion Jet - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Textron Subsidiary Conducts Weapons Exercise on Scorpion Jet

    A Textron subsidiary has deployed three types of weapon systems through its Scorpion jet as part of a weapons testing program that occurred Oct. 10-Oct. 14 at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The company said Wednesday its Textron AirLand arm worked with Naval Sea Systems Command and the 586th Flight Test Squadron at Holloman Air Force Base to test Scorpion’s close air support function through […] More

  • Textron Subsidiary Demos Small Aerosonde HQ Unmanned Aircraft to Potential Customers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Textron Subsidiary Demos Small Aerosonde HQ Unmanned Aircraft to Potential Customers

    Textron‘s unmanned systems business held an inaugural customer demonstration of a small unmanned aircraft system designed to combine vertical takeoff-and-landing capacity of a multirotor platform with the speed of the company’s Aerosonde fixed-wing aircraft offering. The company said Wednesday it demonstrated the Aerosonde HQ at the Textron Systems Unmanned Systems Service and Support Center as well as showcased the system’s transition […] More

  • Textron's Unmanned Systems Business Unveils Control & Collaboration Tech Product Line - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Textron’s Unmanned Systems Business Unveils Control & Collaboration Tech Product Line

    Textron Systems‘ unmanned systems business unit has unveiled a new portfolio of multidomain control and collaboration technologies that work to help customers gain  situational awareness and share information. Textron said Monday the Synturian suite includes the Synturian Control technology the company designed to integrate with different platforms or vehicles as well as the Synturian Remote system equipped with mobile and network-strengthened tools. Wayne Prender, vice […] More

  • AAR, Textron, Beechcraft Collaborate on Air Force T-6 Support Contract Proposal - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AAR, Textron, Beechcraft Collaborate on Air Force T-6 Support Contract Proposal

    AAR and Textron‘s systems business have partnered with Beechcraft Defense to bid on the U.S. Air Force‘s contract to provide support for the Joint Primary Aircraft Training System’s T-6 military training aircraft fleet. The companies seek to supply parts and warehouse services to the Air Force, U.S. Navy and U.S. Army under the Contractor Operated and Maintained Base Supply contract, AAR […] More

  • Bell Helicopter Unveils UAS Platform for Maritime Environments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bell Helicopter Unveils UAS Platform for Maritime Environments

    Bell Helicopter, a subsidiary of Textron, has introduced a shipborne unmanned aerial system designed to combine helicopters’ vertical lift function with the speed and range of fixed-wing aircraft. Textron said Thursday it expects production of the Bell V-247 Vigilant tiltrotor UAS to  begin in 2023 to support operations in maritime environments and locations without runways. Bell developed the UAS platform to help military customers […] More

  • Textron Subsidiary to Produce Universal Test Sets for Navy's Counter-IED Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Textron Subsidiary to Produce Universal Test Sets for Navy’s Counter-IED Program

    Textron subsidiary AAI Corp. has received a $7.4 million contract modification to produce universal test sets for the U.S. Navy’s Joint Counter Radio Controlled Improvised Explosive Device Electronic Warfare program. AAI will also provide UTS  system engineering and program and configuration management services to the Navy, the Defense Department said Tuesday. DoD noted the modification exercises the second option […] More

  • Textron's Aerosonde Subsidiary Rebrands to Reflect Asia-Pacific Region Push - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Textron’s Aerosonde Subsidiary Rebrands to Reflect Asia-Pacific Region Push

    Textron‘s subsidiary called Aerosonde has adopted the new name of Textron Systems Australia in a push to reflect the business unit’s broader service offering and efforts in the Asia-Pacific region. The company said Thursday Textron Systems Australia will specialize in all aspects of unmanned aviation such as ground control technologies, training and simulation systems, logistical, engineering and support services. “For the past 25 […] More

  • Liberty University Offers On-Campus Drone Pilot Training - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Liberty University Offers On-Campus Drone Pilot Training

    Liberty University’s School of Aeronautics now offers an on-campus training program for pilots of fixed-wing and multi-rotor small unmanned aircraft systems. The Federal Aviation Administration‘s regulations on the commercial use of drones work to allow the training program’s students to fly small UAS weighing less than 55 pounds on campus, the university said Tuesday. The […] More

  • USAF to Assess Airworthiness of Textron AirLand Multimission Aircraft Under CRADA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    USAF to Assess Airworthiness of Textron AirLand Multimission Aircraft Under CRADA

    The U.S. Air Force will perform an airworthiness test on a multimission aircraft built by a Textron and AirLand Enterprises joint venture under a cooperative research and development agreement, Defense News reported Thursday. Valerie Insinna writes the certification for Textron AirLand‘s Scorpion aircraft could lead to direct commercial sales to foreign militaries and accelerate the domestic purchase process for […] More

  • Textron, Thales Launch 'Fury' Guided Weapon From Tactical UAS in Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Textron, Thales Launch ‘Fury’ Guided Weapon From Tactical UAS in Test

    Textron‘s weapon and sensor systems business and Thales have launched a Fury guided glide weapon from a tactical unmanned aircraft system to engage static vehicle targets as part of a test at the U.S. Army‘s Yuma Proving Ground. The team released Fury from a Textron-built Shadow TUAS, after which the weapon performed a global positioning system guided fly-out maneuver, transitioned […] More